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The King of Love My Shepherd Is

Author: Henry Williams Baker Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 677 hymnals Topics: Assurance; Blessing; Church Year All Saints' Day; Church Year Maundy Thursday; Church Year Transfiguration; Comfort and Encouragement; Daily Prayer Evening Prayer; Daily Prayer Night Prayer; Darkness; Discipleship; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Emmaus Road; Enemies; Evil; Fear; Freedom from Fear; God as Shepherd; God's Forgiveness; God's Goodness; God's House; God's Love; God's Name; God's Presence; God's Protection; God's Providence; God's Strength; God's Way; Grace; Jesus Christ Confidence in; Jesus Christ Good Shepherd; Joy; Life Stages Death; Love; New Creation; Occasional Services Funerals; Peace; People of God / Church Citizens of Heaven; People of God / Church Suffering; Rest; Temple; Trust; Year A, B, C, Easter, 4th Sunday; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 9-15; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 17-23 Lyrics: 1 The King of love my Shepherd is, whose goodness faileth never; I nothing lack if I am his and he is mine forever. 2 Where streams of living water flow my ransomed soul he leadeth, and where the verdant pastures grow, with food celestial feedeth. 3 Perverse and foolish, oft I strayed, but yet in love he sought me, and on his shoulder gently laid, and home, rejoicing, brought me. 4 In death's dark vale I fear no ill with thee, dear Lord, beside me; thy rod and staff my comfort still, thy cross before to guide me. 5 Thou spreadst a table in my sight; thy unction grace bestoweth; and oh, what transport of delight from thy pure chalice floweth! 6 And so through all the length of days thy goodness faileth never; Good Shepherd, may I sing thy praise within thy house forever. Scripture: Psalm 23 Used With Tune: ST. COLUMBA

Dependence on God

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 16 hymnals Topics: Afflictions Deliverance from; Afflictions Refuge in; Aspirations For Christ; Assurance Declared; Christ Communion with; Christ Glorying in; Christ The Saviour; Christians Conscious of Safety; Christians Duties of; Covetousness; Faith Act of; Faith Confidence of; God Attributes of; God Our Guardian; God Our Refuge; God Source of All Good; Hope; Judgments On the Wicked; Mercy of God Celebrated; Perseverance; Prayer Importunity in ; Prayer Sincerity in; Preservation; The Christian's Reward; Riches; Salvation God's Gift; Steadfastness; Strength in God; Temptation; Trust in God Exhortation to; Vanity Of Men and Riches; Waiting upon God ; The Wicked Character of First Line: My soul in silence wiats for God Lyrics: 1 My soul in silence waits for God, My Saviour He has proved; He only is my rock and tow'r; I never shall be moved. 2 My enemies my ruin seek, They plot with fraud and guile; Deceitful, they pretend to bless, But inwardly revile. 3 My soul, in silence wait for God; He is my help approved, He only is my rock and tow'r, And I shall not be moved. 4 My honor is secure with God, My Saviour He is known; My refuge and my rock of strength Are found in God alone. 5 On Him, ye people, evermore Rely with confidence; Before Him pour ye out your heart, For God is our defense. 6 For surely men are helpers vain, The high and the abased; Yea, lighter than a breath are thy When in the balance placed. 7 Trust not in harsh oppression's power Nor in unrighteous gain; If wealth increase, yet on your gold Ye set your hearts in vain. 8 For God has spoken o'er and o'er, And unto me has shown, That saving power and lasting strength Belong to Him alone. 9 Yea, loving-kindness evermore Belongs to Thee, O Lord; And Thou according to his work Dost every man reward. Scripture: Psalm 62 Used With Tune: SAWLEY

Exceeding great and precious Promises

Author: George Keith Appears in 2,128 hymnals Topics: Afflictions Comfort under; Afflictions Deliverance from; Afflictions Refuge in; Christians Encouragements of; Confidence; Death Confidence in; God Faithfulness of; Old Age; Promises; Saints Security of; Trust In Providence First Line: How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord Scripture: Deuteronomy 31:6-8 Used With Tune: PROTUGUESE HYMN

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LOBE DEN HERREN

Meter: 14.14.4.7.8 Appears in 413 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: C. S. Lang (1891-1971) Topics: God, Father Gracious and Merciful; The Creation; Christ the Teacher; Christ the Healer; Pentecost 3 The Church's Confidence in Christ; Pentecost 7 The More Excellent Way Tune Sources: Stralsund Gesangbuch 1665 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11532 17656 7121 Used With Text: Praise to the Lord, the almighty, the king of creation!

HOW GREAT THOU ART

Appears in 170 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Stuart K. Hine Topics: Creation; Eternal Life; God as Creator; God's Greatness; God's Majesty; Jesus Christ Atonement; Jesus Christ Blood of; Jesus Christ Confidence in; Jesus Christ Second Coming; Jesus Christ Son of God; Music and Singing; Praise of God; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55535 55664 66665 Used With Text: How Great Thou Art

EVENTIDE

Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 977 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William H. Monk Topics: Change; The Cross; Daily Prayer Evening; Darkness; Powers of Darkness; Death and Dying; Eternal Life; God's Presence; Jesus Christ Confidence in; New Heaven and Earth; Occasional Services Funeral/Witness to the Resurrection; Spiritual Peace Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 33215 65543 34565 Used With Text: Abide With Me

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Delight in God's house and confidence in him

Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns #CCCXLIV (1792) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Confidence in God First Line: Thou, Lord, my safety, thou my Light Lyrics: 1 Thou, Lord, my safety, thou my light, What danger shall my soul affright? Strength of my life! what arm shall dare To hurt whom thou hast own'd thy care? 2 One wish, with holy transport warm, My heart has form'd, and yet shall form; One gift I ask; that to my end Fair Sion's dome I may attend; 3 There joyful find a sure abode, And view the beauty of my God; For he within his hallow'd shrine My secret refuge shall assign. 4 When thou with condescending grace, Hast bid me seek thy shining face, My heart reply'd to thy kind word, Thee will I seek, all-gracious Lord. 5 Should every earthly friend depart, And nature leave a parent's heart; My God, on whom my hopes depend, Will be my father and my friend. 6 Ye humble souls, in every strait On God with sacred courage wait; His hand shall life and strength afford, O ever wait upon the Lord. Scripture: Psalm 27 Languages: English

Confidence in God

Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns and Prayers, for Public and Private Worship #265 (1845) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Confidence in God First Line: Our Father, thron'd above the sky Lyrics: 1 Our Father, thron'd above the sky, To thee our empty hands we spread; Thy children at thy footstool lie, And ask thy blessings on their head. 2 With cheerful hope and filial fear, In that august and precious name, By thee ordain'd, we now draw near, And would the promis'd blessing claim. 3 Does not an earthly parent hear The cravings of his famish'd son? Will he reject the filial pray'r, Or mock him with a cake of stone? 4 Our heav'nly Father, how much more Will thy divine compassions rise; And open thy unbounded store, To satisfy thy children's cries? 5 Yes, we will ask, and seek, and press For gracious audience at thy seat; Still hoping, waiting for success, If persevering to entreat. 6 For Jesus in his faithful word The upright supplicant has blest; And all thy saints with one accord The prevalence of pray'r attest. Languages: English

Trust and confidence; or, looking beyond present appearances

Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns #CCLXXXVI (1792) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Confidence in God First Line: Away my unbelieving fear Lyrics: 1 Away, my unbelieving fear! Let fear to me no more take place! My savior doth not yet appear, He hides the brightness of his face: But shall I therefore let him go, And basely to the tempter yield? No, in the strength of Jesus no! I never will give up the shield. 2 Altho' the vine its fruits deny, Altho' the olive yield no oil, The withering fig-tree droop and die, The field illude the tiller's toil; The empty stall no herd afford, And perish all the bleating race; Yet I will triumph in the Lord, The God of my salvation praise. 3 Away, each unbelieving fera, Let Fear to cheering hope give place; My Savior will at length appear, And shew the brightness of his face: Tho now my prospects all be crost, My blooming hopes cut off I see, Still will I in my Jesus trust, Whose boundless love can reach to me. 4 In hope, believing against hope, His promis'd mercy will I claim, His gracious word shall bear me up, To seek salvation in his name: Sure, my dear Savior, bring it nigh! My soul shall then outstrip the wind, On wings of love mount up on high, And leave the world and sin behind. Scripture: Habakkuk 3:17-18 Languages: English

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Lowell Mason

1792 - 1872 Topics: Faith, Confidence in God Composer of "BETHANY" in TTT-Himnaro Cigneta Dr. Lowell Mason (the degree was conferred by the University of New York) is justly called the father of American church music; and by his labors were founded the germinating principles of national musical intelligence and knowledge, which afforded a soil upon which all higher musical culture has been founded. To him we owe some of our best ideas in religious church music, elementary musical education, music in the schools, the popularization of classical chorus singing, and the art of teaching music upon the Inductive or Pestalozzian plan. More than that, we owe him no small share of the respect which the profession of music enjoys at the present time as contrasted with the contempt in which it was held a century or more ago. In fact, the entire art of music, as now understood and practiced in America, has derived advantage from the work of this great man. Lowell Mason was born in Medfield, Mass., January 8, 1792. From childhood he had manifested an intense love for music, and had devoted all his spare time and effort to improving himself according to such opportunities as were available to him. At the age of twenty he found himself filling a clerkship in a banking house in Savannah, Ga. Here he lost no opportunity of gratifying his passion for musical advancement, and was fortunate to meet for the first time a thoroughly qualified instructor, in the person of F. L. Abel. Applying his spare hours assiduously to the cultivation of the pursuit to which his passion inclined him, he soon acquired a proficiency that enabled him to enter the field of original composition, and his first work of this kind was embodied in the compilation of a collection of church music, which contained many of his own compositions. The manuscript was offered unavailingly to publishers in Philadelphia and in Boston. Fortunately for our musical advancement it finally secured the attention of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, and by its committee was submitted to Dr. G. K. Jackson, the severest critic in Boston. Dr. Jackson approved most heartily of the work, and added a few of his own compositions to it. Thus enlarged, it was finally published in 1822 as The Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music. Mason's name was omitted from the publication at his own request, which he thus explains, "I was then a bank officer in Savannah, and did not wish to be known as a musical man, as I had not the least thought of ever making music a profession." President Winchester, of the Handel and Haydn Society, sold the copyright for the young man. Mr. Mason went back to Savannah with probably $500 in his pocket as the preliminary result of his Boston visit. The book soon sprang into universal popularity, being at once adopted by the singing schools of New England, and through this means entering into the church choirs, to whom it opened up a higher field of harmonic beauty. Its career of success ran through some seventeen editions. On realizing this success, Mason determined to accept an invitation to come to Boston and enter upon a musical career. This was in 1826. He was made an honorary member of the Handel and Haydn Society, but declined to accept this, and entered the ranks as an active member. He had been invited to come to Boston by President Winchester and other musical friends and was guaranteed an income of $2,000 a year. He was also appointed, by the influence of these friends, director of music at the Hanover, Green, and Park Street churches, to alternate six months with each congregation. Finally he made a permanent arrangement with the Bowdoin Street Church, and gave up the guarantee, but again friendly influence stepped in and procured for him the position of teller at the American Bank. In 1827 Lowell Mason became president and conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society. It was the beginning of a career that was to win for him as has been already stated the title of "The Father of American Church Music." Although this may seem rather a bold claim it is not too much under the circumstances. Mr. Mason might have been in the average ranks of musicianship had he lived in Europe; in America he was well in advance of his surroundings. It was not too high praise (in spite of Mason's very simple style) when Dr. Jackson wrote of his song collection: "It is much the best book I have seen published in this country, and I do not hesitate to give it my most decided approbation," or that the great contrapuntist, Hauptmann, should say the harmonies of the tunes were dignified and churchlike and that the counterpoint was good, plain, singable and melodious. Charles C. Perkins gives a few of the reasons why Lowell Mason was the very man to lead American music as it then existed. He says, "First and foremost, he was not so very much superior to the members as to be unreasonably impatient at their shortcomings. Second, he was a born teacher, who, by hard work, had fitted himself to give instruction in singing. Third, he was one of themselves, a plain, self-made man, who could understand them and be understood of them." The personality of Dr. Mason was of great use to the art and appreciation of music in this country. He was of strong mind, dignified manners, sensitive, yet sweet and engaging. Prof. Horace Mann, one of the great educators of that day, said he would walk fifty miles to see and hear Mr. Mason teach if he could not otherwise have that advantage. Dr. Mason visited a number of the music schools in Europe, studied their methods, and incorporated the best things in his own work. He founded the Boston Academy of Music. The aim of this institution was to reach the masses and introduce music into the public schools. Dr. Mason resided in Boston from 1826 to 1851, when he removed to New York. Not only Boston benefited directly by this enthusiastic teacher's instruction, but he was constantly traveling to other societies in distant cities and helping their work. He had a notable class at North Reading, Mass., and he went in his later years as far as Rochester, where he trained a chorus of five hundred voices, many of them teachers, and some of them coming long distances to study under him. Before 1810 he had developed his idea of "Teachers' Conventions," and, as in these he had representatives from different states, he made musical missionaries for almost the entire country. He left behind him no less than fifty volumes of musical collections, instruction books, and manuals. As a composer of solid, enduring church music. Dr. Mason was one of the most successful this country has introduced. He was a deeply pious man, and was a communicant of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Mason in 1817 married Miss Abigail Gregory, of Leesborough, Mass. The family consisted of four sons, Daniel Gregory, Lowell, William and Henry. The two former founded the publishing house of Mason Bros., dissolved by the death of the former in 1869. Lowell and Henry were the founders of the great organ manufacturer of Mason & Hamlin. Dr. William Mason was one of the most eminent musicians that America has yet produced. Dr. Lowell Mason died at "Silverspring," a beautiful residence on the side of Orange Mountain, New Jersey, August 11, 1872, bequeathing his great musical library, much of which had been collected abroad, to Yale College. --Hall, J. H. (c1914). Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company.

Maltbie D. Babcock

1858 - 1901 Person Name: Rev. Maltbie D. Babcock Topics: God the Father God in Nature; Courage and Loyalty; Creation, The; God Nature, His Glory in; God Presence, His Abiding; Joy; Loyalty and Courage; Nature Services; Trust and Confidence Author of "This is my Father's world" in The Hymnal Maltbie D. Babcock (b. Syracuse, NY, 1858; d. Naples, Italy, 1901) graduated from Syracuse University, New York, and Auburn Theological Seminary (now associated with Union Theological Seminary in New York) and became a Presbyterian minister. He served the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. In Baltimore he was especially popular with students from Johns Hopkins University, but he ministered to people from all walks of life. Babcock wrote hymn texts and devotional, poems, some of which were published in The School Hymnal (1899). Bert Polman =================== Babcock, Maltbie Davenport, D.D., was born at Syracuse, N.Y., Aug. 3, 1858. Graduating from Syracuse University, he was ordained to the Presbyterian Ministry and was pastor of churches in Lockport, N.Y., Baltimore, and N.Y. City. He died at Naples, Italy, May 18th, 1901. He was richly gifted, and his short career was memorable for the extraordinary influence of his personality and his preaching. Extracts from his sermons and poems were published in 1901 as Thoughts for Every Day Living; and his Biography by Dr. C. E. Robinson in 1904. He contributed to the Presbyterian School Hymnal, 1899, the following hymns:— 1. Gaily the bells are ringing. Faster. 2. O blessed Saviour, Lord of love. Unto Me. 3. Shining Sun, shining sun. Child's Hymn. The tunes to these hymns were of his own composing. In The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, there is:— 4. Rest in the Lord, my soul. Trust and Peace and in the American Methodist Hymnal, 1905:— 5. Be strong: we are not here to play. Activity in God's Service. Nos. 4 and 5 are from Thoughts for Every Day Living, 1901; but undated. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Russell Kelso Carter

1849 - 1928 Person Name: R. Kelso Carter, 1849-1928 Topics: Faithfulness of God; Holy Spirit; Love of God for Us; Music; Praise; Promise of God; Refuge, Security; Song; Trust, Confidence; Trust in Jesus Christ; Victory over Sin and Death; Word of God; Gospel; Worship and Adoration Author of "Standing on the Promises" in Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) Russel Kelso Carter was a professor in the Pennsylvania Military College of Chester. While there he was licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church. He became very active in leading camp meetings and revivals. After failing health forced him to abandon this work, he studied and became a medical doctor as well as a writer. He wrote novels as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

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